Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard
"Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty"
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
-Ambrose Bierce
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx